Not according to the latest Real Clear Politics poll released today.
Cruz would beat Hillary! by 5 points.
Look, we can agree to disagree, that's what FR is all about.
But, I would rather vote for a true conservative like Cruz than a celebrity like Trump.
Trump has a lot of great ideas and says things I like to hear but we need a Constitutionally adept candidate in the white house.
A Cruz v Hillary election would be a very ugly election. Actually a Hillary vrs anyone will be ugly. You are going to have to go negative to beat Hillary. And she has a very long list of things to go negative on. But expect Hillary to hit back and hit back hard. She's smart, she quick and she can return fire with the best of them. Cruz might be able to beat her if he can paint her as the corrupt, incompetent phony she is.
But Cruz has a lot of negatives too. He is not viewed as a problem solver. He is viewed as a ideologue problem maker. He has zero appeal except to evangelical conservatives and a few constitutional conservatives. He comes across as an arrogant twit and has no friends and no backers in the US Senate. Where he is seen as a Senator playing politics to advance he own career. Another weakness that the Hillary will use in attacking Cruz is that his only claim to US citizenship is that his mother had a US passport. His dad was Canadian and he was born in Canada. She will say Cruz in not a Natural Born Citizen and a great many American will agree with her.
Normally the above would make Cruz unelectable but against Hillary anything is possible. Getting Cruz elected with all his negatives is not going to be an easy task. It would be a voters suppression election where the goal of both candidates was to suppress the turnout of the other. Neither candidate has any crossover appeal and the winner of such an election would not have a mandate to do anything. Hillary vs Cruz is a lose lose election for the USA.